Sütqatın
Kumyk · numen · Kumyk traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Sütqatın ('milk-woman', from Kumyk süt 'milk' and qatın 'woman') is a personified power invoked in Kumyk rain-calling songs alongside Zemire. Sources differ on her character: some ethnographers class her among the benevolent water-and-fertility deities who bring rain, while others, drawing on Central Asian parallels, interpret her instead as a malevolent spirit of drought and scorching heat. Either way she belongs to the cluster of named powers that govern rain in Kumyk agrarian ritual.
Domains
- rain
Powers
- governs the coming of rain
Relations
- companion: ZemirePaired with Zemire in the rain-calling repertoire.Obryady vyzova dozhdya v traditsionnoy kul'ture tyurkoyazychnykh narodov Prikaspiyskogo Dagestana. Cyberleninka. (secondary)
Sources
- Sütqatın is a figure invoked in Kumyk rain-calling songs and counted among the water-element deities of the pantheon.: Obryady vyzova dozhdya v traditsionnoy kul'ture tyurkoyazychnykh narodov Prikaspiyskogo Dagestana (kumyki, nogaytsy, terekementsy). Cyberleninka. (secondary)
- Sources differ on her nature: some class her as a benevolent rain-and-fertility deity, others as an evil spirit of drought and heat.: Seferbekov, R. I. (2015). Verkhovnye bogi (gromoverzhtsy) narodov Dagestana. Vestnik Instituta IAE, no. 3. (secondary)